Laravel-mix Webpack Public Path | Set custom path for chunk files | Using Laravel Mix with webpack for All Your Assets

Laravel Mix allows you to use a single line to describe what you want and it'll use it's preconfigured settings to process it properly.

Most of our time will be spent in the webpack.mix.js file. In the file, we can configure all we need to do to set public path and we can also set js file location for chunk js files when we use Suspense and lazy for dynamic js loading for per route.

There are several more Mix methods and you can set all of them in the default webpack.mix.js file.

// Full API // mix.js(src, output); // mix.react(src, output); <-- Identical to mix.js(), but registers React Babel compilation. // mix.extract(vendorLibs); // mix.sass(src, output); // mix.standaloneSass('src', output); <-- Faster, but isolated from Webpack. // mix.fastSass('src', output); <-- Alias for mix.standaloneSass(). // mix.less(src, output); // mix.stylus(src, output); // mix.postCss(src, output, [require('postcss-some-plugin')()]); // mix.browserSync('my-site.dev'); // mix.combine(files, destination); // mix.babel(files, destination); <-- Identical to mix.combine(), but also includes Babel compilation. // mix.copy(from, to); // mix.copyDirectory(fromDir, toDir); // mix.minify(file); // mix.sourceMaps(); // Enable sourcemaps // mix.version(); // Enable versioning. // mix.disableNotifications(); // mix.setPublicPath('path/to/public'); // mix.setResourceRoot('prefix/for/resource/locators'); // mix.autoload({}); <-- Will be passed to Webpack's ProvidePlugin. // mix.webpackConfig({}); <-- Override webpack.config.js, without editing the file directly. // mix.then(function () {}) <-- Will be triggered each time Webpack finishes building. // mix.options({ // extractVueStyles: false, // Extract .vue component styling to file, rather than inline. // processCssUrls: true, // Process/optimize relative stylesheet url()'s. Set to false, if you don't want them touched. // purifyCss: false, // Remove unused CSS selectors. // uglify: {}, // Uglify-specific options. https://webpack.github.io/docs/list-of-plugins.html#uglifyjsplugin // postCss: [] // Post-CSS options: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/master/docs/plugins.md // });

Below is the code snippet which will define js file location for chunk js files:

const mix = require('laravel-mix'); /* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mix Asset Management |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Mix provides a clean, fluent API for defining some Webpack build steps | for your Laravel application. By default, we are compiling the Sass | file for the application as well as bundling up all the JS files. | */ mix.react('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js') .sass('resources/sass/app.scss', 'public/css'); mix.webpackConfig({ output: { // Directory for junk files to {ROOT_DIR}/public/js chunkFilename: 'js/[name].js', }, });

PHP Script to force download big files using chunk

<?php
$file = dirname(__FILE__) . "/download_it.zip";
if (file_exists($file)) {
    if (FALSE !== ($handler = fopen($file, 'r'))) {
        header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
        header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
        header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($file));
        header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: chunked'); //changed to chunked
        header('Expires: 0');
        header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
        header('Pragma: public');
      
        //Send the content in chunks
        while (false !== ($chunk = fread($handler, 4096))) {
            echo $chunk;
        }
    }
    exit;
}
echo "<h1>Content error</h1><p>The file does not exist!</p>";?>